Like many people, I activated Ping when Apple revealed it earlier this month, and then like many people I stopped using it. Where's the, um, social? Why is it saying I like all these Britney Spears remixes? Et cetera.»9/26/10 11:00am 9/26/10 11:00am

I'd like to kiss whoever at Apple decided to do this: today's free iTunes "discovery download" is the first movement of avant-garde composer John Cage's 4'33", which is to say, it's 1:46 of nothing. »3/31/09 6:00pm 3/31/09 6:00pm

Back is the initially touted then disabled feature of Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows in iTunes 8.1, iLounge is reporting. It only works for official videos purchased or rented in the iTunes store (or transferred from a Blu-ray disc's digital copy), and seems to vary country-by-country. »3/24/09 11:50am 3/24/09 11:50am

I've never really understood music subscription services. Despite the conveniences, to date I have never, ever felt the need to lease something that can get imprinted on your heart like only music really can. It needs to be mine. But this week rumors kicked up again regarding an iTunes all-you-can-eat…
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Click to viewIn a marriage as cozy as coffee beans and foamed milk, Apple has teamed up with Starbucks to, yes, sell music. When your Wi-Fi powered iPod Touch or iPhone, or any laptop, is within range of a Starbucks, a button will pop up on the music store interface. Tap it, and you get songs recently played in that… »9/05/07 1:58pm 9/05/07 1:58pm

Something's afoot on the iTunes store. First we notice MGM/United Artists (MGM/UA) movies start showing up on the store in the New Releases area, with a few MGM flicks on board, albeit moldy oldies such as Mad Max, Rocky, Dances with Wolves and Robocop. United Artists (which is actually an MGM company) so far checks… »4/11/07 12:23pm 4/11/07 12:23pm

Although some of us here at Gizmodo are near-deaf from spending way too much time in musical environments exceeding 130dB, we're still happy to hear the rumor that Apple will soon distribute tracks compressed in its Apple Lossless compression format on the iTunes Music Store. »6/23/06 1:22pm 6/23/06 1:22pm

Apple's Steve Jobs is negotiating personally with Hollywood studios, standing firm on a flat $9.99 price for all movies, according to Variety magazine. But that's holding up the deal, because movie studios want a tiered pricing scheme, giving them a $19.99 cap on movie prices, with older films going for $9.99. One… »6/19/06 2:19pm 6/19/06 2:19pm

Coinstar, the company's whose coin counting machines transform loose change into cold hard cash at grocery stores across the country, recently introduced a program that allows patrons to cash their coins in exchange for gift cards and eCertificates redeemable at various retailers, including Apple's iTunes Music Store.… »4/28/06 3:48pm 4/28/06 3:48pm

Observant tipster Evan DiBiase was rooting around the iTunes 6.0.3 binary file while lamenting the 100-song limit on his ROKR iTunes phone, and noticed some mysterious references to upgradePhone . One thing led to another and suddenly DiBiase found a link that led him to the iTunes Music Store. He saw the screen… »2/16/06 1:30pm 2/16/06 1:30pm